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few miles and proposed to cross to the south side ; as this 

 involved crossing the Loendi too, I at first objected, but in 

 hopes that we might get food for them we consented, and 

 were taken over in two very small canoes. I sent Ali and 

 Musa meanwhile to the south to try and get some food. I got 

 a little green sorghum for them and paid them off. These 

 are the little troubles of travelling, and scarce worth men- 

 tioning. A granitic peak now appears about 1& off, to the 

 W.S.W. It is called Chihoka. 



18th May. — At our crossing place metamorphic rocks of a 

 chocolate colour stood on edge ; and in the country round 

 we have patches of dolomite, sometimes as white as marble. 

 The country is all dry ; grass and leaves crisp and yellow. 

 Though so arid now, yet the great abundance of the dried 

 stalks of a water-loving plant, a sort of herbaceous acacia, 

 with green pea-shaped flowers, proves that at other times 

 it is damp enough. The marks of people's feet floundering 

 in slush, but now baked, show that the country can be 

 sloppy. 



The headman of the village where we spent the night of 

 17th is a martyr to rheumatism. He asked for medicine, 

 and when I gave some he asked me to give it to him out of 

 my own hand. He presented me with a basket of siroko and 

 of green sorghum as a fee, of which I was very glad, for my 

 own party were suffering, and I had to share out the little 

 portion of flour I had reserved to myself. 



19 th May. — Coming on with what carriers we could find 

 at the crossing place, we reached the confluence without 

 seeing it; and Matumora being about two miles up the 

 Loendi, we sent over to him for aid. He came over this 

 morning early, — a tall, well-made man, with a somewhat 

 severe expression of countenance, from a number of wrinkles 

 on his forehead. He took us over the Loendi, which is 

 decidedly the parent stream of the Eovmna, though that 

 as it comes from the west still retains the name Loendi from 



